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In five pages this paper examines the different ways in which heroine Antigone and hero Oedipus wielded power in these plays by So...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

calls on the various gods (including Triple Artemis, in her aspects as huntress, moon-goddess, and goddess of dark sorcery), to sa...

In five pages this paper analyzes the importance of families in these classic Greek plays by Sophocles. There are no other source...

he has heard the dreadful prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus meets Laius on the road, becomes enr...

the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...

not have written them. Sophocles wrote "Antigone"(c. 442 B. C) and "Oedipus the King" (c. 425 B. C.) among numerous other works. ...

This paper considers the many struggles of Oedipus throughout the course of Sophocles' tragic play in five pages. Four sources ar...

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...

you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...

deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...